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If you haven't seen Lady Gaga's latest video, "You and I", in which she transforms to look like a dude, then you were probably confused by last night's opening of the VMAs. Yes, Lady Gaga can play a convincing roughed-up guy, but her chameleon skills aren't easy to come by. It doesn't matter how many stylists you have, how many producers work for you, or how much dough the record label throws your way, because ultimately if you don't have the chops don't bother changing your look (it won't help). With out a doubt real iconic artists, like Lady Gaga, Madonna, and David Bowie, have the talent to pull off different styles and branch out to different genres. Some pay off and some definitely don't.

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On Saturday, while you're sleeping in or making a run to Trader Joe's for vegan pizza, there'll be more important things going on in the world. Yeah, it's Kim Kardashian's wedding! We know you could probably care less, but these multimillion-dollar Hollywood weddings only happen once every...month?

Since this wedding will be televised in a two-day E! event, we're sure some big musical heavyweights will be performing (or at least some well-known DJ will be mounted on a huge platform) at the $29-million estate in Montecito which is where the wedding is being held. And since we already have some inclination of what the wedding playlist might include, we definitely know what songs will NOT be making the cut:

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Stars is still around, yes. Their latest single, "Changes", from the Canadian's 2010 set The Five Ghosts, has a new video out directed by Jaron Albertin.

It features a nekkid lady dancing around Toronto's Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre. Not very well though. Gah. Watch after the jump

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Coldplay at Honda Center

​Online music company BlueBeat.com was a site that sold popular music on the Internet-at a fraction of the cost. For $0.25, they sold songs by the Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Katy Perry, the Beatles and more. 

They didn't have rights to these songs from EMI or any publishing house, so how was it possible that they could sell these songs online? BlueBeat argued that "the songs on the website only sounded like exact copies. Site operators extracted sound waves from each song and then replicated them artificially. Attorney Archie Robinson said,Your human ear would be tricked into thinking it's the same sound...We've created an artificial sound that's exactly like the Beatles, only better."

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​Last Friday, electro-pop duo OMD played a show at Stubbs in Austin during SXSW in which a camera boom fell into the crowd. Four people were injured, but after the band was told the injuries were minor, the band went onstage to play a shortened set.

Today, OMD lead singer Andy McCluskey released a statement regarding the incident.

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The Cure

​​Not that you care, but last week, my girlfriend of 11 years and I broke up, which I guess makes me somewhat of an expert on the subject of really good records to listen to if you're feeling the loss of someone today. Like anyone who was with another person for a long enough time, it's nearly inevitable that certain songs, bands or records will remind me of that lost love, so here are five records I most certainly will not be listening to today.

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​Yesterday, Kanye West  tweeted his frustration against the NBC's 'Today Show,' where he said Matt Lauer tried to force his answers during the (then unaired) segment. Lauer had asked West for a reaction to George W. Bush's statement that West's claim that he was racist during Hurricane Katrina was "one of the most disgusting moments" in his presidency.

Today the show was aired; watch after the jump as West triest to articulate his empathy with Dubya before Lauer runs a tape of Bush talking about the incident--to which West replied, "I didn't need you guys to play the tape in order to prompt my emotion to what I'm going to say," the rapper said, looking annoyed.More >>

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For the last few days, tortured ticket holders for the massive Punk in the Fox concert at Fox Pomona on July 3 have been waiting to see if the show would get the axe or go on as scheduled.More >>

​Apparently, you don't need to stand in line at an American Idol audition to have a shot at getting a music career started on television. There's another reality show that can do that for you: The Real Housewives series on Bravo has recently become the launching pad for singing cougars. Of course, you have to fit the mold: female, over 40, wealthy, catty, and a body overflowing with botox. Here are four Housewives whose musical debuts that have us laughing instead of toe-tapping.
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